Giving terrorism the finger!
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Posted on 01/29/2005 4:03:31 PM PST by Dog
It is now 3 am in Iraq the polls will be opening in the next few hours as the world watches and hold's it breath. Iraq is about to undertake a historic vote.
Lets wish them well....... please post all comments and election photos to this thread.
LOL!
I'm all for hanging terrorists.
before or after we set them ablaze????????
Beloved USMC son-in-law is in Iraq, scheduled to start journey "home" to Okinawa Monday.
Prayers for all our brave troops and for the brave Iraqi people who are risking their lives to achieve democracy in their country.
And prayers for and thank you to President George W. Bush - he will go down in history as the Great Liberator - just as Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Presidnt Bush has freed the Afghan and Iraqi people. Both of these great men were vilified, slandered, libeled, with the most horrendous hatred ever visited on an American President.
Good! Running out to turn on the TV....
i imagine that will be much knashing of teeth among some libs we know (HA) tomorrow, for Dubya has done it AGAIN! (Note to Peggy Noonan: The garbage can lid is open and the garbage is burning now.)
This is the lesson that the children need to learn.
... "Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, who never to himself has said,
this is my own, my native land."
Sir Walter Scott
Just popped into my mind...can't remember the rest...
The networks haven't even told anyone what we have done for the people of southern Iraq by restoring the wetlands, and bringing life to the people who live there, Timeout.
It might take away from their "Iraq is a messy quagmire Bush is a failure" template........
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1994&dept_id=226374&newsid=13851758&PAG=461&rfi=9
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Abdul al-Najr woke up early Saturday with his wife, piled into a car with three friends and drove 250 miles from St. Louis to the polling place here, where jubilant Iraqis danced and held hands in the steady, cold rain.
"I'm so happy because I'm human," al-Najr, 38, said after casting a ballot for the first time in his life. "I get to say I'm human now."
On the second day of voting for Iraqi expatriates, people drove hundreds of miles to reach the five U.S. cities with polling places: Nashville, Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington. More than 5,000 Iraqis voted on Friday, and organizers expected larger crowds over the weekend.
In Nashville, which has the largest Kurdish community in the nation, about 20 Kurds celebrated by dancing and waving flags in the rain. The men and women broke into a line dance called the badine with traditional music blaring from a car's speakers.
Children waved flags to signify Kurdistan, while several teenage boys wore Iraqi soccer jerseys and had their faces painted like the national flag.
"It is celebration because for the first time they taste the freedom of this country," said George Khamou, of Little Rock, Ark., who watched the dancers. "This is really a big celebration for all of us here - the Kurdish, the Arabs, the Christians, everybody.
"All we say now is all of us are Iraqis, because we are all the same."
Voters had their right index finger dipped in ink as a safeguard against voting fraud, then dropped paper ballots into boxes.
"They're thrilled to have the ink on their finger as a badge that they voted," said Kathleen Houlihan, the Chicago spokeswoman for the International Organization for Migration, which is helping coordinate the vote. "It's history in the making."
Nearly 26,000 people have registered to vote in the United States. Tens of thousands more are expected to vote in 13 other countries during balloting that runs through Sunday, the same day as elections in Iraq.
One busload of about 50 Iraqis traveled from Lincoln, Neb., to cast their ballots Saturday in Rosemont, Ill., about 20 miles northwest of Chicago, while other voters arrived from Iowa, Missouri and Indiana.
Turnout was steady in sunny Irvine, Calif., where voters clapped and cheered as fellow expatriates completed their paper ballots.
"I never thought I could put the words together, Iraq and vote," said Mona Oshana, 36, who has lived in Phoenix since she was a child. "We have left (Iraq), but we have not forgotten them."
Bako Darwesh, 5, and his little brother Dana, 2, splashed around in mud puddles while first their mother, Samiir, and then their father, Sherko, voted in Nashville.
"Everything is excellent (here)," said Sherko Darwesh of Memphis. "But the situation is difficult there (in Iraq). We hope that they will be safe, we hope."
Iraq's president warned that fears about security there would prompt many to stay home rather than vote in the nation's first election in half a century. Mortar rounds landed at least one polling site in the region south of Baghdad overnight.
In Australia, fistfights broke out at a polling station Saturday when a group of Islamic extremists chanted slogans against those casting ballots.
But in the United States, Iraqis were thrilled to be voting for the 275-member assembly that will draft Iraq's new constitution.
Arkan al-Hasnawi, 33, of LaCrosse, Wis., has spent the last two weeks in Nashville staying with his family and brother Thaban, 38.
"It's a long time we've been waiting for vote," Arkan al-Hasnawi said. "Everybody is excited to vote, everybody should get that chance - to vote for a new Iraq."
Both brothers were hopeful Iraq could be unified like it was before Saddam Hussein's regime.
"If we get right person, then he can run the country right and everybody will be happy," Thaban al-Hasnawi said.
On the Net:
http://www.iraqocv.org/
These people are scum....chasing firefights.
Pinging myself to your links.
Thanks!
Giving terrorism the finger!
Find a copy of "This is My Country" hoosier......it's the text of the verse.
I just heard an NBC Iraq election update from Brian Williams. He reported that tensions are high, reported that the embassy was hit by a rocket, but mentioned NOT ONE WORD about the drone camera, of that we tracked and captured the terrorists involved. So of course it sounded like the terrorists were very powerful and we weren't able to respond.
Effin' media wanker..
My thoughts exactly as I look at these pictures.......this is an incredible moment! Had no idea how moved I would be by it all.
Charles was pragmatic saying it won't be an overnight success but he was as usual very optimistic....
"Mission Inebriation"...........BAH!!
Sounds like "must miss" TV to me - Who gives a flyin' fig what loser JF'inK thinks anyway, other than Timmy "Potatohead".
LOL!!! Love your note to Noonan -- priceless!
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